NSF SpaceX ASDS Landing Bingo returns again just like another flight proven first stage!!!

Once upon a time rockets were territorial. Just like gangster rappers of the 1990s, they were either East Coast or West Coast for life. A rocket from the Cape lived and died with only the Atlantic on its mind. One from Vandenberg out west sailed over the Pacific and that was that. Well now the tyranny of geography has been shattered because the west coast flying Iridium-1 booster has gone east and is doing its thing again as Bulgariasat-1 Its a whole new world of rocket reuse and the OCISLY is already out at sea to make it a reality!

No shotgun start, the game is immediately open!

The game remains exactly as played in prior iterations. If its not broke don't fix it.

Pick your square, one per player. Closest square to the center engine when it comes to a halt gets the prize!

This includes post landing walkabouts and Robot repositioning.

No prize for fireballs, debris, or damage on deck!

If it hits the ship, goes kaboom, punctures holes in the deck, falls over in transit, or splashes down in the sea, there is no winner. Only a booster standing tall and triumphant as the ASDS sails into the harbor will generate a win!

Water squares are meaningless, if falls in the sea, no winners - no prize. Feel free to pick a water square just for "I told you so" bragging rights if you wish!

This thread remains the official record of who chose what square when. For that reason any edited pick post is invalid.

NOTE: There may sometimes be a slight delay of a few minutes at most between scraper updates, so check the last few posts before yours too, just to be sure. Scraper is operational as of this edit. Thanks to DanielW for setting the scraper up, it helps a lot!

Judging is by me, Helodriver using imagery of OCISLY sailing back into the harbor to help determine a winner. Rocketcams, helicopter or drone shots, and landing coverage will also be used, but where it sits at the time of unloading will be final. Post landing movements by robot if such a thing is possible, will definitely add a twist of uncertainty.

Winner gets a SpaceX artifact, which has been recycled from its original purpose into a suitable prize. Winner also gets a one year L2 membership for free. If a current L2 member, you can donate it to another member (or add it to your own term length).

Good luck SpaceX, Good luck Bulgariasat-1, and Good luck to NSF readers!

...water is life and it is out there, where we intend to go. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man or machine on a body such as the Moon and harvest a cup of water for a human to drink or process into fuel for their craft.

Chris Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

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one of these has to be good... (well, not this one since Chris has it)

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"I think it would be great to be born on Earth and to die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact." -Elon Musk"We're a little bit like the dog who caught the bus" - Musk after CRS-8 S1 successfully landed on ASDS OCISLY

Scraper isn't keeping up, so please check after you post and if you didn't get first choice at that square, try again... It took me 3 tries (two subsequently deleted) I think....

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"I think it would be great to be born on Earth and to die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact." -Elon Musk"We're a little bit like the dog who caught the bus" - Musk after CRS-8 S1 successfully landed on ASDS OCISLY

"Are you sure you want to go to Red Alert, Sir? It does mean changing the bulb." - Kryten"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory". LLAP - Leonard Nimoy

The scraper isn't working. Five hours ago andylander processed this map of squares. Check that map, pick a couple squares, check the posts that follow to eliminate those that were subsequently taken, then post your choice.

"An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field." -Niels BohrPoster previously known as Exclavion going by his real name now.

"An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field." -Niels BohrPoster previously known as Exclavion going by his real name now.

"One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to." - Elon Musk"There are lies, damned lies, and launch schedules." - Larry J

Oh man, who starts these things on Father's Day? And Chris what did you change to the site's html? It is only grabbing the first page! Ok will fix. Hold on!

You mean https? That's the only thing that's changed this year. You can blame Mark

Hopefully you can fix the scraper, but if not people should keep manually updating to give people an idea of what's spare.

Chris, I discovered that the problem is not on your end. Everything works fine on my development computer. The issue is with some configuration change at my cheap webhost. I will have to try to figure out what that is after work.

Oh man, who starts these things on Father's Day? And Chris what did you change to the site's html? It is only grabbing the first page! Ok will fix. Hold on!

You mean https? That's the only thing that's changed this year. You can blame Mark

Hopefully you can fix the scraper, but if not people should keep manually updating to give people an idea of what's spare.

Chris, I discovered that the problem is not on your end. Everything works fine on my development computer. The issue is with some configuration change at my cheap webhost. I will have to try to figure out what that is after work.

Thanks Dan - all the best. SpaceX sources note they don't want to delay the launch again due to this issue of not knowing where the land the first stage on the drone ship

Oh man, who starts these things on Father's Day? And Chris what did you change to the site's html? It is only grabbing the first page! Ok will fix. Hold on!

You mean https? That's the only thing that's changed this year. You can blame Mark

Hopefully you can fix the scraper, but if not people should keep manually updating to give people an idea of what's spare.

Chris, I discovered that the problem is not on your end. Everything works fine on my development computer. The issue is with some configuration change at my cheap webhost. I will have to try to figure out what that is after work.

Thanks Dan - all the best. SpaceX sources note they don't want to delay the launch again due to this issue of not knowing where the land the first stage on the drone ship

This is directly on top of the J on the target and should be far enough out that no one has it or wants it...

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"I think it would be great to be born on Earth and to die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact." -Elon Musk"We're a little bit like the dog who caught the bus" - Musk after CRS-8 S1 successfully landed on ASDS OCISLY

M's Laws of Aerodynamics: On Physics Exam:1) if you push anything hard enough it will fly Q)The allegory of Schrödinger's cat shows what?2) if you stop pushing it stops flying A)That Shrödinger was a sadistic cat hater

Wow. That was exciting. We have yet to see a successful landing that far off the mark. Too crude for me to say that the quick trigger bulleye folks on the first page can suck it? All in good fun. Congrats SpaceX and the winner here.

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...water is life and it is out there, where we intend to go. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man or machine on a body such as the Moon and harvest a cup of water for a human to drink or process into fuel for their craft.

"One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to." - Elon Musk"There are lies, damned lies, and launch schedules." - Larry J

"I think it would be great to be born on Earth and to die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact." -Elon Musk"We're a little bit like the dog who caught the bus" - Musk after CRS-8 S1 successfully landed on ASDS OCISLY

Ok, so its been two weeks since the landing of booster 1029.2 aboard the ASDS and SpaceX has not yet released any high resolution on-board still pictures or video of the landing. We know the melty grid fin debris covered up the rocketcam lens so that was going to be no help, but the usual camera angles aboard ship which are usually released when the ASDS returns to port would be definitive in determining landing position and the bingo winner.

Since that release of the obviously sporty landing imagery has yet to happen and after waiting to see if any aerial or high angle drone pix would surface of OCISLY returning to port with the Octocrab holding the rocket (none did) after that more than long enough two week wait, it was time to turn to the few seconds of video broadcast during the webcast to see if a position could be determined from the slightly elevated position of the video camera uplinking the action.

Indeed it could! Fortunately the leg footpads touched or lined up with the outer white circle and the position and the rotation of the booster could be surmised, knowing that the legs span a 7x7 game grid square pattern.

Geometric analysis then gives a result of F-26 which, being well outside the normal range of landings was not picked by any player.

However, the game rules are written that its the square closest to the center engine that gets the win, and just one row down and one row to the left of the landing spot is square G-25 which was the very last game square picked just minutes before launch and the closure of the game!

That means tinorex, who snuck in just moments under the wire (yes, I verified the very fortuitous timing multiple times just to be sure! ) is the First Two Time Winner of NSF ASDS Landing Bingo!!! The first booster to land on two different ships, in two different oceans, and the second to ever fly two missions yields the first two time winner! Kind of fitting and serendipitous actually!

Congrats on your repeat win tinorex and SpaceX for another stunning successful flight (Now give us the pix and vids! We wanna see the 3 engine gyrations and powerslide!) and thanks to all NSF reader and players!

"I think it would be great to be born on Earth and to die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact." -Elon Musk"We're a little bit like the dog who caught the bus" - Musk after CRS-8 S1 successfully landed on ASDS OCISLY

"I think it would be great to be born on Earth and to die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact." -Elon Musk"We're a little bit like the dog who caught the bus" - Musk after CRS-8 S1 successfully landed on ASDS OCISLY

I suspect the distribution of guesses will shift dramatically now that we have this analysis. Holy crud, that would suggest these were becoming educated guesses rather than WAGs. What fun will that be?!

I suspect the distribution of guesses will shift dramatically now that we have this analysis. Holy crud, that would suggest these were becoming educated guesses rather than WAGs. What fun will that be?!

I suspect the distribution of guesses will shift dramatically now that we have this analysis. Holy crud, that would suggest these were becoming educated guesses rather than WAGs. What fun will that be?!

You know the fun is, if most picks are concentrated on the right hand side and a booster ultimately does land on the left hand side, the sparser square selection on the left makes it more likely to actually be closest to the rocket, as shown in this example where a pick one that was NOT directly beneath the centre engine.